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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lopping
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Compact varieties of common foliage plants maintain gorgeous forms without pruning, while mess-free flowering shrubs provide all the beauty of their higher-maintenance counterparts.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2026 -
Steiner suggests pruning your non-spring-flowering plants to improve airflow and sunlight exposure.—
Alexandra Kelly,
Martha Stewart,
22 Feb. 2026
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Rather than trimming the beans individually, do it in batches.—
Riley Wofford,
Martha Stewart,
21 Feb. 2026
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Often the hedge is full enough with healthy limbs to grow shoots that fill voids left from trimming.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2026
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As tariffs provoke backlash and global trade uncertainty, markets for Texas exports have been curtailed, clipping the wings of our economy.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Mulching grass clipping and leaves through your mower will return organic matter to your lawn.—
Chris McKeown,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
14 Feb. 2026
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According to several government and military sources familiar with the plan’s implementation, its first phase took effect in the last days of January, severely curtailing the ability of both warring sides to use Starlink for their attack drones.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2026
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Weeks after a Lafayette judge and his wife were shot in their home, Indiana lawmakers approved a package of protections for judges, including curtailing access to their addresses.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
26 Feb. 2026
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Since no one wants clutter crowding their new space, paring down belongings often comes with the territory.—
Jamie Cuccinelli,
Martha Stewart,
19 Feb. 2026
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Gold and silver prices rose after paring bigger, early gains.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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The results indicate that techniques such as cropping images so models focus their attention on relevant regions and applying reinforcement learning for reasoning can minimize hallucinations in VLMs.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Jan. 2026
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The last family photo features less of the family, with Kardashian cropping it so that most of her face and all of Barker’s is out of view.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
30 Nov. 2025
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Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg had decided in 2007 that Facebook needed to take on Microsoft and become a powerful enterprise app, instead of growth-hacking his way to taking over the internet.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Born blind and hungry for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and modern technology.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
9 Feb. 2026
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Pueblo has maintained just a narrow few-point lead on Air Academy for most of Thursday, but head coach Tyler Lundquist was hardly concerned about the nipping Kadets.—
Nate Peterson,
Denver Post,
21 Feb. 2026
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Where the sharpness and definition can fade as viewers pull back projectors for super large screenings, AWOL Vision hit CES 2026 with a new model aimed at nipping that in the bud.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Lopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopping. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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